Joseph Lopez
Cardiovascular Disease · Torrance, CANPI 1114982782
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 256 payments — averaging $20.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$1K
- Novartis$844
- Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.$468
- AstraZeneca$464
- Merck$375
- Johnson & Johnson$268
- plus $2K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$5,15099%
- Education$461%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 46 | $1,178 |
| Novartis | 66 | $844 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 23 | $468 |
| AstraZeneca | 29 | $464 |
| Merck | 17 | $375 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 18 | $268 |
| Pfizer | 14 | $253 |
| Abiomed | 4 | $228 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $214 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 11 | $201 |
| Amgen | 6 | $145 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 5 | $120 |
| Abbott | 1 | $82 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 3 | $57 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $48 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 2 | $45 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $40 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $21 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $20 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
How this compares
$5,197 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 16 | $20,073 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 13 | $310 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 14 | $214 |
| Carvedilol | 15 | $77 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $253 | $20,07316 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 60th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.
Other cardiovascular disease in Torrance
- Matthew BudoffTorrance$11.3M
- Ronald OudizTorrance$2.6M
- William FrenchTorrance$2.2M
- Rushi ParikhTorrance$731K
- Ted LoveHillsborough$102.8M
- Lori DanielsSan Diego$10.2M
- Paul KurthSanta Barbara$6.1M
- Michael BlumSan Francisco$5.5M
- Tony ChouSan Francisco$5.2M
- Jason RogersSacramento$5.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.